https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:59:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-impact-of-economic-crises-on-ngos-the-case-of-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-impact-of-economic-crises-on-ngos-the-case-of-greece/ Continued]]> The paper analyzes the impact of economic crises on organized civil society. A number of empirical studies have shown that a financial crisis can inflict a serious damage on the nonprofit sector—mainly through a sharp decline in revenues. However, the Greek case shows that a crisis can also have some positive effects on NGOs: many nonprofits introduced reforms that increased efficiency, the number of volunteers reached record levels, and there was a spectacular rise in funding by private philanthropic foundations. However, Greek NGOs continue to be dependent on external funding, unable to raise large sums from their members and the wider public. Organized Greek civil society continues to be turned upside down: dependency on EU and state funds is being replaced by dependency on private foundations.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/refugee-flows-and-volunteers-in-the-current-humanitarian-crisis-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/refugee-flows-and-volunteers-in-the-current-humanitarian-crisis-in-greece/ Continued]]> The refugee crisis in Greece has created a great and sudden accentuation of the needs related to addressing the crises at a regional and local levels. Since early 2016, a refugee flow of over 860,000 migrants into Greece and Northern Europe has been recorded. Currently, 55,000 people have been registered as permanent residents in settlements throughout Greece. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been a determining factor in remedying the problem with involvement of hundreds of volunteers and citizens, who became active outside the traditional state frameworks, as well as the networks of major organizations, to create, on-site structures and networks for refugee support. In the framework of Seminar about Sociology of Networks at the University of the Aegean, from March to May 2016 the authors organized a field research. Four research visits and 50 open interviews with volunteers were completed in the areas of Mytilene, Victoria Square, Piraeus Port, and Eidomeni refugee camp, 2016. This article records the forms of cooperation and self-organization between the volunteers as the refugee crisis progressed, as well as their impact on safety and security in addressing the most vulnerable of the groups’ issues.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/challenges-to-immigrant-associations-and-ngos-in-contemporary-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:20 +0000 http://arc.local/items/challenges-to-immigrant-associations-and-ngos-in-contemporary-greece/ Continued]]> The paper explores the challenges faced today, in a context of severe economic crisis, by immigrant associations (IMAs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Greece. The data analysed here was collected between October 2009 and February 2010 and incorporates references to all recorded migration-related social actors operating in Greece. The paper takes into account such indicators as legal form, objectives, financial capacity and geographical range of activity, concluding with a typology of civil society actors dealing with migration issues. This study aims at informing the migration policymaking and migrant integration processes. By a spatial hot-spot clustering of IMAs and NGOs, we also illustrate the concentration patterns of civil society actors in Greece.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-social-aesthetics-of-eligibility-ngo-aid-and-indeterminacy-in-the-greek-asylum-process/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:16 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-social-aesthetics-of-eligibility-ngo-aid-and-indeterminacy-in-the-greek-asylum-process/ Continued]]> On the porous EU border of Greece, where both fiscal and migration management are said to be in a state of crisis, NGOs figure crucially in the provision of legal and social aid to asylum applicants. I explore the dialogical engagements underpinning the determination of client eligibility at one such NGO in Athens. As workers and aid candidates coproduce “pictures” of lives eligible for protection, profound uncertainties and indeterminacies emerge. I argue that this indeterminacy gives testament to an often overlooked form of agency: how aid candidates and service providers alike reshape and even refuse dominant images of deservingness, victimhood, and vulnerability from within systems of aid distribution.

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